Atatürk Mah. Ertuğrul Gazi Sok. Metropol İstanbul C1 Blok 2B/101 Ataşehir/İstanbul

vCISO

Your organization’s senior information security leadership provided externally. Our experienced vCISO team develops security strategies fully aligned with your business objectives, protects your critical assets and processes from risks, and rapidly ensures regulatory compliance (KVKK, GDPR, NIS2, ISO 27001, etc.). We prepare and implement policies, procedures, and roadmaps; measure and improve your security maturity through incident response, exercises, and clear reporting at the management and board level.

 

 

Key Responsibilities and Services

 

Security strategy and roadmap

Develop information security strategy aligned with business objectives and prepare short-, mid-, and long-term roadmaps.

 

Risk management

Asset inventory, threat and vulnerability assessments, risk assessment and prioritization.

 

Policies and procedures

Prepare/update documentation such as information security policies, acceptable use, backup, incident response, and access management.

 

Compliance and regulatory support

Compliance assessments and audit preparation for ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS2, DORA, KVKK, PCI-DSS, etc.

 

 

Security architecture and technology guidance

Evaluate existing security controls, advise on technology selection and architecture.

 

Incident response and crisis management

Create incident response plans, run tabletop exercises, coordinate during real incidents and perform post-incident analysis.

 

Security operations improvement

Recommendations for SOC/log management, SIEM, IDS/IPS, endpoint security, and process optimization.

 

Awareness and training

Cybersecurity awareness programs for employees, phishing tests, and training content.

 

Vendor and third-party security

Supplier assessments, contractual clauses, and third-party risk management.

 

Reporting and executive support

Regular security reports for senior management and the board, KPIs, and budget/request justification.

 

 

 

Security strategy document and roadmap

 

 

Set of security policies

 

Incident response plan and exercise reports

 

Risk assessment report and action list

 

Compliance status reports and gap analyses

 

Executive/board summary reports and KPI management

 


Which organizations is this suitable for?

 

SMEs where a full-time CISO is costly or unnecessary

 

Rapidly growing startups and firms with regulatory requirements

 

Organizations lacking maturity in current security management

 

 

 

Benefits

 

Experienced security leadership at a reasonable cost

 

Flexible, rapidly deployable service

 

Independent and objective assessment

 

Quickly raise security maturity for small/medium organizations

 


Engagement models and how we integrate


 

Fixed-term (monthly/quarterly)

 

Regular advisory, monitoring, and reporting.

 

 

Project-based support

 

Short-term engagement for a specific project (e.g., ISO 27001 preparation, risk assessment).

 

Hybrid model

Ongoing strategic advisory plus project-based implementation support.

 

Retainer/hourly consulting

 

Time-based support as needed.

 

 

Success metrics / example KPIs


 

Reduction in number of open risks

 

Timely remediation/closure rate (MTTR)

 

Incident response times

 

Rate of closed compliance gaps

 

Employee awareness scores (phishing simulation results)

 

 


Contact Us Today

satis@softdefend.com

 

 




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